People

Yiting Yang is a third-year Ph.D. student. Her research focuses on human mobility and urban energy systems under extreme weather, using deep generative models and data-driven simulation to advance climate-resilient urban infrastructure.

Ji Zhou is a third-year Ph.D. student. His research focuses on heat pumps in residential field settings, combining instrumentation, data analysis, and deep learning to improve system efficiency and reduce energy waste.

Yongyun Jin is a third-year Ph.D. student. His research focuses on the interaction between advanced materials and energy systems, using multi-scale modeling, physics-informed learning, and optimal control to advance sustainable and adaptive energy solutions.

Bingtong Guo is a second-year Ph.D. student. His research focuses on advanced building control and building-grid flexibility.

Junjie Li is a first-year Ph.D. student. Prior to Syracuse, he received his B.S. and M.S. from Tongji University. His research focuses on intelligent controls for grid-interactive efficient buildings and dynamic load-based testing of room heat pumps.

Sydney Jud is a first-year Ph.D. student with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Syracuse University. Her research spans solid oxide fuel cells, energy systems, and aerodynamics.